28 August 2012 | last updated at 12:15AM
The first-time mother can hardly hold her son with both hands as she is partially disabled on the left-side of her body, the result of a stroke that happened just hours after delivering El-Rizqy.
I remember I had a fever, but I was still excited and wanted to hold and feed my baby. The next thing I knew, I was paralysed and had partial vision loss, she says. I was diagnosed with an ischaemic stroke that resulted from a blood clot in the right-side of my brain.
I had a healthy pregnancy and I was never in the high risk group. Even today, I am still undergoing various tests to ascertain the cause of my condition.
Emilzunnur was bedridden for three weeks at the hospital after the attack. In the beginning, she felt angry and hopeless and could not accept her fate. She was only 29 then.
She recalls: I was crying and emotional all the time. I felt ashamed because I had to depend on others to do things for me, including bathing and putting on clothes. Besides going for physiotherapy treatments, I spent most of my time at home because I did not have the confidence to face the world.
However, things are beginning to look good for Emilzunnur after undergoing treatment at Universiti Malaya Medical Centre and the Nasam centre in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
While her husband, Rudy Idris, and her family members take care of El-Rizqy, she does simple chores such as folding the laundry. And after seven months of medical leave, she returned to work.
Although her left foot and hand are still weak, she is able to speak clearly and walk without any support. She can even ride pillion on her husbands motorcycle from their home in Shah Alam to her office in Petaling Jaya.
When my husband is unable to take me to Nasam for my daily treatment, my colleagues at Qi Group help out. I am grateful and lucky to have very supportive family, friends and colleagues, she says.
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Stroke hours after delivering son